Anjelica Moreno graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology and a certificate in Environmental Studies. Throughout her time at OU, she was an active participant in OUCAMS from the very beginning. She served as Treasurer her junior year, and Secretary her senior year. Throughout her senior year, she worked on a project called “Positive Degree Days Correlating to Glacier Loss in Glacier National Park.” She worked under Dr. Scott Reinemann for this project and also worked closely with someone from USGS. She was inspired to start this project when she went on a study abroad trip with Harold Perkins to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park the summer before her senior year. She will be continuing on to graduate school at The Ohio State University and will focus on Environmental Science and Air Pollution. She also had two internships at the Ohio EPA Division of Air Pollution Control, and is considering going back for a career.

Dan is a 2009 graduate of the Ohio University meteorology program. He grew up in Athens County and actually served as an intern at the Scalia Lab as a senior in high school. While at Ohio University, Dan was a member of the US Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps and commissioned in 2009 as an Air Force Weather Officer. Dan served 10 years on active duty including: two deployments to the Middle East, a two-year assignment to South Korea, and stateside assignments to Shaw AFB, SC, and the Pentagon.

Dan is currently a reservist with the US Air Force and works as a Senior Strategy Consultant in the Intelligence Community, specializing in Geo-spatial Intelligence and technological advancements. Dan and his wife reside in Washington, D.C., however, they make frequent trips back to Athens to visit friends and family.

Tom is a 2013 graduate of Ohio University with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology and a minor in Mathematics. While enrolled at Ohio University, Tom served as President of OUCAMS, as well as Cadet Commander of Air Force ROTC Detachment 650. Two years after earning his degree and his commission from Ohio University, Tom attended graduate school at Florida State University and earned his Master of Science in Meteorology in 2017. Tom is currently a Captain in the United States Air Force and is serving as a Flight Commander at the 21st Operational Weather Squadron at Kapaun Air Station, Germany. As Flight Commander, he leads a team of 47 Airmen and Sailors through 24/7 forecast production, which supports all military operations throughout both Europe and Africa. Upon finishing his assignment in May of 2020, Tom and his wife will move to Misawa Air Base, Japan, where he will assume responsibility as the Weather Flight Commander in charge of all base weather operations.

During his free time, Tom spends every opportunity to travel throughout Europe. Additionally, he spends many of his weekends throughout the winter months skiing in the Swiss and Austrian Alps. Tom is an avid sports fan and will regularly support the Pittsburgh Pirates, Steelers, Penguins, and the Florida State Seminoles. He is also an avid soccer fan and will regularly attend 1. FC Kaiserslautern games as a season ticket holder.

Sara graduated in 2016 with a B.S. in Meteorology and a minor in mathematics. She was the Fundraising Chair for OUCAMS in 2013-2014, and the Secretary for OUCAMS in the 2015-2016 school year. Sara was a forecaster for Scalia Lab from 2013-2016 as either a student, volunteer, or as a paid employee. In the summer of 2015 she interned at the Cuyahoga County Office of Emergency Management in Cleveland, OH. Since her sophomore year she has been working on a research project with Dr. Houser. This research is being written into a publication, during the summer of 2016, by Dr. Houser and Sara will be a contributing author. She will be pursuing a Master’s degree in Atmospheric Sciences at Ball State University as a graduate assistant in the Department of Geography. In her free time, she enjoys scrapbooking, reading, playing with her dog Lucca, hanging out with friends, and planning her wedding.

Jim has served as the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids, Michigan since June 2011 and has worked for the National Weather Service since October 2001. Before landing in Grand Rapids, Jim’s past roles in the National Weather Service included working as the Warning Coordination Meteorologist in Jackson, Kentucky, a Lead Forecaster in Louisville, Kentucky and a General Forecaster in Billings, Montana.

Jim earned his Michigan Professional Emergency Manager designation in 2018 and currently serves as the State Emergency Management Coordinator for the National Weather Service in support of the State Emergency Operations Center in Michigan.

He earned a B.S. in Geography-Meteorology from Ohio University in 1999 and an M.A. in Geography in 2001. He served as Associate Director of Scalia Lab from 2000-2001.

Alek Krautmann is a program analyst and science advisor for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) headquarters in Washington DC. He has also served as a NOAA Program Coordination Officer in providing senior staff support to the office of the NOAA administrator and as a policy advisor for satellites and environmental data. Prior to work in DC Alek was a meteorologist at the NWS New Orleans/Baton Rouge office. He was previously a Research Associate with the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP), which is a NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments team at the Oklahoma Climatological Survey in Norman, OK. Alek works to promote an informed society; one that anticipates and is able to respond to the weather and climate hazards in our world.

Alek is a 2012 graduate of Ohio University (M.S. Geography). He was Associate Director at Scalia Lab from 2010 to 2012 and taught undergraduate meteorology lab courses. During this time he also served as co-chair of the American Meteorological Society Student Conference Planning Committee and completed the AMS Summer Policy Colloquium. Alek is a 2010 graduate of the University of Oklahoma (B.S. Meteorology), including a semester abroad at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Emily graduated from Ohio University in 2008 with a B.S. in Meteorology. After college, she moved to Washington, DC where she worked first for the American Meteorological Society’s Education Program and then for Eastern Research Group, an environmental consulting firm. She also earned a M.S. in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. Since 2014, Emily’s husband’s career with the U.S. Air Force has taken their family all over the world. She currently works remotely for HeartLands Conservancy, an environmental non-profit based in southwestern Illinois.